Literacy Year 5 and 6Week beginning 11.05.20

Keeping a diary

• In these unusual times where staying at home in your PJs and seeing your

friends on a Zoom call are the new normal, we may forget that we are living

through historic times.

• Throughout history we have learnt about important events through the diary

writing of some very famous people.

• Now it is your chance to tell your story of live during the Coronavirus

lockdown of Spring 2020.

Famous diarists

• We learnt about The Great Fire of London and The Plague from the diary of Samuel Pepys.

• Anne Frank shared her innermost thoughts with us which helps us to understand what it was like to live through World War 2.

• Adrian Mole shared his opinion of a famous Royal Wedding in the 1980s.

• Even the Wimpy kid can teach us a thing or two!

Your Diary

• You can record your diary in a format that is unique to you. You can explore your experiences in any way you choose but look here for some ideas.

• https://www.ourcoronadiary.com/ages-8-to-12

• Your teachers have shared their ideas with you too.

Diary 1 - A recipe for a perfect...

by Mrs. Hogan-Hussein

• It was my daughter

Molly's 18th Birthday last

weekend. I wondered how

on we could make it

special without a big party.

Here is my recipe for a

perfect birthday during

lockdown.

• https://www.ourcoronadiary.com

/post/a-recipe-diary-from-sarah-

crossan-s-poetry-challenge

A handful of

presents wrapped

and left on the

doorstep

A dollop of balloons hanging

from the trees in the garden.

A sprinkle of birthday cards plopping

through the letterbox.

A big splash of HAPPY

BIRTHDAY messages and songs

from all your favourite family and

friends.

2 huge helpings of gooey

chocolate cake dusted with

candles flickering in the wind.

100s and 1000s of Happy

Birthdays from the neighbours

and friends passing by on their

bikes.

Now take all of these and mix together with some

smiles, laughter and distant kisses.

Bake in your own home for 24 hours

And you will have

THE PERFECT BIRTHDAY IN LOCKDOWN

Diary 2 – being creative with Photographyby Mr Mortimore

https://www.ourcoronadiary.com/post/kathryn-evans-photo-diary

• Not everyone wants to write or draw a diary but loads of people love to take photographs. If you have a smartphone, those pictures might pop up as 'memories'. Organise your pictures to show a story of your time at home.

• One of my favourite things to do when I'm not teaching is to take photographs. I mainly like taking them of flowers, bees, butterflies and small things like that.

• If you like the idea of recording what's happening in yours and others' lives through pictures, why not watch this video and make a diary of your Corona Virus through photographs and captions.

"Today is Wednesday. I was finding it hard being always in my flat, so I decided to take

my camera and crystal ball out on my daily exercise - I try to do this every day and it

helps me to feel closer to nature. I tried using a crystal ball to create reflections with

flowers and leaves and it helped me to feel a little more peaceful than I was before I left. I

like how this picture in particular shows the brown leaves through the crystal ball"

Diary 3 - Scrapbook

diary

Just like BB Taylor, Miss Breese has made her own

'scrapbook diary' of the first week we went into

lockdown, including some thoughts, goals, messages

and reflections on what she will do when it’s over.

BB Taylor explains this diary as: a great and creative

way to keep a diary, there are no specific rules on

what you must include and how you present, it is

completely up to you! Words, pictures, a mix of the

two? It is yours to create as you wish!

Check the link for top tips for a scrapbook

diary: https://www.ourcoronadiary.com/post/bb-

taylor-make-a-scrapbook-diary

Diary 4

How to share your diarieshttps://www.ourcoronadiary.com/how-to-join-in

• Children can;

1. Keep a diary: Write it, draw it, sketch it, paint it, knit it, model it, film it, record it, sing it - whatever, however, just date it and save it.

2. Magpie the creative ideas authors & illustrators have shared on the website - find the right age group.

• Adults can;

1. Joining them on Instagram @ourcoronadiarygram where they'll post the weekly themes and prompts. Children can't share with them from private accounts but adults can on their behalf by tagging them #ourcoronadiary.

2. Following them on Twitter @OurCoronaDiary

3. Submitting your child's diary for the online archive when we send the invitations out.